The Wheeler Hut Expedition lasted seven days in late August
2000. Six artists participated in a remarkable adventure, a
creative laboratory, centered at the Alpine Club of Canada's
Wheeler Hut, in the Rogers Pass region of Glacier National Park.
Placing contemporary Canadian artists in the back-country to
create new ways of seeing mountain landscape has become a signature
program of the Whyte Museum. The use of the 19th century traditional
arts expedition mode, which historically places artists in the
field together for a short while and returns them to their solitary
practice, has provided an extraordinary opportunity for artistic
expression.
– The Wheeler Hut Expedition, Whyte Museum of the Canadian
Rockies, 2001, Banff Alberta.
Travel Images
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"These photographs are located within vistas of culture and the
built environment, but are more than a vernacular/tourist shot, the
memento or picture-trophy. The prolonged exposure time - three, five
or ten minutes - is a transformative process that is inseparable from
the alchemical process and phenomenon. The photographic moment can,
by extension, be equated to the time it takes to hear a song, recount
a story, read a letter, or remember how you got there, and back."
– Ihor Holubizky. Catalogue text from the exhibition Dianne
Bos; In the Province of Memory, 1993 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Early Work - Jet Wings
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"When the artist is moving along with the subject depicted ,
had the sensation of movement been captured? To create "Jet Wing,
Over the Prairies", Dianne Bos employs a process that's dependent
on movement, but here, the lack of. Bos uses the most basic of photo-techniques
at her disposal, a pinhole camera, a box with a small hole on one
side that functions as a lens to focus an inverted image on the box's
opposite side. Its use requires the photographer and subject to be
absolutely motionless, or in this case, still, within a structure
in motion. The work required a prolonged exposure period of four minutes,
during which time Bos pressed and held the box/camera up to the airplane
window, capturing the wing as a seemingly motionless object, although
it was moving at five-hundred miles an hour. Restricted by technique,
Bos has produced what might be considered an ersatz movement, framed
not by the usual instant moment of the camera, but by speed, time,
and her compositional seat on the plane."– Craig Wells, "On Movement", 2000, an exhibition
for the TH&B-Hamilton GO Centre from the collection of the Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.